Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simple & Suicidal. The solution tried last week was brutally simple-and almost sure suicide. About 3:25 p.m., a red truck sputtered to a stop in front of the Presidential Palace. The driver inspected the engine, walked to the tail gate. "Now," he shouted, and 21 university students and political opponents of Batista burst out, firing rifles and machine guns. They were soon in the palace door and up the staircases on either side to the second floor and Batista's office. One of them flung a hand grenade at the door...
...human beings with purpose and pride. With two girls who were her fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis and are now moving deliriously toward their homes. The biggest problem...
Life's Encore. In the final stage of their journey they encountered the overwhelming if absent-minded munificence of the U.S. Army. A Negro truck driver whisked them 50 miles in 60 minutes to Halle airfield, where a U.S. dispatcher airily put them aboard a C-47 bound for Brussels and, by easy stages, home...
Pity Limit. Near Zwingle, Iowa, after his truck started to burn, Norman Fulmer hitched a ride to the firehouse and asked for help, was told that firemen could not work beyond the town's boundaries, hitched back to the truck, got back in, drove the fire to fire headquarters for treatment...
Lodestoned. In Providence, ten months after he gave himself up at police headquarters, turned in a utility truck he had stolen while on a binge in a Boston suburb, Ed R. Silva took on another skinful, showed up at the station with a taxicab he had liberated in Boston, offered an explanation: "I like the Providence cops...